| Show jazzed hymn hymns interrupted service KANSAS CITY MO april 16 A A little jazz is music almost prevented dr milord H lyon evangelist evangelists from speaking at his own meeting on a reco recent n t night sixty negro vocalists Voc allate rang sang praise god im satiated in jazz rhythm and the personals persons Is the congre congro gallon cation set the rafters ratters resounding with applause when those same singers added its me 0 lord and you better mind the audience had made up its mind it was all off with the preaching the singers acting together in a chorus were from the western university vor ver sity kansas side the alien allen chapel tenth and charlotte streets and the jackson jubilee company R G jackson professor at ot music at the western university conducted the singing the songs they sang were regular Lr stock hymns but the chorus put snap pep punch and a wall into thorn them and set pairs ot of eel ft churning the sawdust in time with the syncopation it was after the first jazz sacred song that a minister advanced to the pulpit and waited patiently for the hand clapping to subside he soon perceived he had a task we will read in the first chapter of luke he began trying to speak above the applause at after the second song IS E J hollings rollings langs master of ceremonies and choir leader attempted to mako make an announcement no his voice tao was inaudible only when be explained there would be more later did the audience bear with him and finally after the third son song 9 had been sung and one of the others repeated the evangelist advanced to the pulpit for sermon his pres denpe 1012 only ay served to increase the applause alaon at first he be was waa dismayed then with a mo abow or nevor expression he be balanced himself on tiptoe tip toe and held an arm aloft the applause continued bo eo did the evangelist glaring almost fiercely when it med that an endurance event bad had boon been begun the reluctantly ceased their clappI clapping nL which mean write b had ad degenerated into stamp inc in jazz jace george W coke general singer of the party replied when asked torn for his professional opinion why etwas it w the Ily liest jazz I 1 ever beard heard 0 11 X in pur our report ot of the futeral of mrs abplanalp we stated she was buried in ju the vernal cemetery we WO should have bave said maer ce cemetery meter also she was born january 23 1869 instead of 1867 we omitted men in the same article the duett of perl oakley and jessie mr abplanalp desires this haper to express his and tudo to all who assied aaste ted la in in any j way in the recent Ick sIck neef nein and death of his wife A W |
